Blessed Are the Dead
by Malla Nunn (South Africa/Australia)
2012 / 336 pages
read by Humphrey Bower 9h 7m (A+)
rating: A / crime
This is the third book in the Detective Emmanuel Cooper series by Malla Nunn of South Africa and Australia. Cooper, who is half Afrikaner and half English, has a co-investigator named Detective Constable Samuel Shabala, a Zulu tribesman and also of the local police. The time frame is the 1950s, the days of apartheid (instigated in 1949/1950). Imo, it’s very credible historical fiction- likely set in the days prior to the author’s birth. >>>>MORE>>>>